MENCIPTAKAN REWARD SEBAGAI KIAT MENGATASI
STRESS PADA TIM PENDUKUNG ATLET
ANAK-ANAK TAEKWONDO
Arundati Shinta
Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Proklamasi 45
Yogyakarta
ABSTRACT
Being in an isolated and bored location whilst huge office works and household tasks are neglected, really is a stressful situation. Parents should be in that situation for two hours per day or five times per week because of their commitments to support children’s desire to be a taekwondo athlete. Parents would be more and more stress when children’s academic performances decrease drastically because of this Korean martial arts activity. Because of those reasons then parents behave negatively such as refusing to accompany children to the dojang (a place for taekwondo exercise), to manage children’s healthy food menu, to give financial contribution regularly to the athlete’s parent organization, and refusing to be the athlete’s supporting team. Some parents really recognize that the negative behaviors have significant effect on lowering the probability for children to have more optimal performances on taekwondo. They therefore adjust themselves through an unusual method of coping stress e.g. creating rewards from that stressful situation. Actually this is an application of the cognitive dissonance theory proposed by Leon Festinger several decades ago. According to that theory, people must justify any effort positively (e.g. try to create a reward) when they are enforced in an inconvenient situation in order to obtain a more consonance cognitive situation. When the reward is very small because of too difficult to obtain, then people are more likely to value it and they tend to create more rewards. Their objective is to deal with the stress with intention to support children’s outstanding performance in the taekwondo activity.
Key words: stressful situation, taekwondo athlete, cognitive dissonance, reward. DOWNLOAD TULISAN LENGKAP DISINI.
